ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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It was afterwards learned that the outfit arrived at Union Ray May 27, and left 
with all the gear on September 1 for Karta Bay, one white crew having been sent there 
in advance August 1. The old Baronovich saltery, at the latter place, was rented by 
the month and operated by this company. 
During our visit at Karta Bay they were salting dog salmon for the Japanese 
market, for which they said they had an order to furnish 300,000. These salmon were 
simply gutted, the viscera and gills removed, and, without being otherwise cleaned, 
they were salted in benches, and, after shrinking, resalted in boxes for shipment. 
On September 23 the Baronovich saltery was closed, the equipment, pack, and 
attendants placed on barges or transferred to the steamer Dirigo , and the outfit 
transported to Cholmondley Sound, where the Miller saltery had been rented. 
The following outfit was used by the Great Northern Fish Company: Launch 
Griffin, crew 3, value $3,000, chartered; 1 cargo lighter, $1,000; 1 scow. $150; 2 
scows, $60 each; 5 seine boats, $80 each; 3 skiffs, $35 each; 3 purse seines, 220 
fathoms by 16 fathoms, 2i-inch mesh, value $750 each; 3 drag seines, each 120 fathoms 
by 8 fathoms, 3-inch mesh, $1.75 per fathom; 2 gill nets, each 50 fathoms by 50 
meshes, 5£-inch mesh, 65 cents per fathom. 
There were employed 30 white salters and beach men, 16 white fishermen, 15 
white and 1 Indian casuals; about one-half of these were hired in Alaska. From 
the middle of September the white men began to leave and return to Puget Sound, 
and more Indians were then employed. Steady hands received in pay and allowance an 
amount equal to about $60 per month, whites and natives alike, but the casuals, who 
are sailboat tramps, were paid on whatever terms could be arranged; sometimes 
it was board and keep until the arrival of the Pardner , and again it was passage 
to the Sound with the next shipment. The boxes used for shipping dry-salted dog 
salmon to the Sound held from 750 to 800 pounds. Those used to ship to Japan 
held 400 pounds, or from 48 to 50 cured fish. 
This company also chartered the schooner Volunteer , 12 tons, and sent her to 
Redfish Bay for salting purposes. The record to September 23 was 41,024 redfish 
salted. Arrangements were also made to take the output of the Point Barrie saltery, 
formerly operated by Cyrus Orr, but now by a Russian called “Zip” Moon, and 300 
barrels of redfish and dog salmon were expected from this source. The company 
also claimed to have made arrangements at Boca de Quadra to dry-salt dog salmon 
and to put up black-cod as Pacific-coast mackerel, but inquiry at that point failed to 
elicit any information confirming this. There are probably few black-cod in those 
waters, except strays. 
It was also proposed to carry on extensive herring salting at Point Barrie during 
the fall and winter, and the barkentine Blakeley was said to be en route (September 
23) to Karta Bay, to be sent later with an outfit to Port Bucarelli for 2,500 barrels 
of salt herring. 
It has since been learned that this company failed. Diligent inquiry was made 
as to the results of its operations, and the following is the approximate output for 
the season: 5,000 barrels salted salmon of all kinds, principally humpbacks; 30,000 
dog salmon, dry -salted, for the Japanese market. 
